Mark Kember
@markyk.bsky.social
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PR, tech and writing in equal measure at onebite comms.
Today is a "I'm going to eat the crisps and there's nothing you can do about it world" kind of day. Ready salted, if you are wondering.
about 1 month ago
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Danny Palmer
about 2 months ago
I recently joined Sysdig's What The Hack show in this episode examining Deepfake executive fraud, discussing why it has become such an issue and how to prevent it. (Also, you can nose at the LEGO sets behind me.) Thanks to
@maliciarogue.bsky.social
for having me!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKq...
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S2 E5: Deepfake Executive Fraud
YouTube video by What The Hack Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKqgDpXQ7E
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So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.
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2 months ago
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The New Stack
3 months ago
Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.
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Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads
Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.
https://bit.ly/3LbdZ6o
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Jim Waterson
3 months ago
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported.
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
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The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a ÂŁ20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball-the-snail-farmer-his-mafia
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For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange: "When's copy approval due?"
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3 months ago
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The military ceremony for Donald Trump is on in the background. I thought they were playing the theme tune to Monty Python's Flying Circus ...
4 months ago
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Coates is Odd This Day
4 months ago
Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement
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1) Would this be useful? 2) Is there an initiative like this already that Jess could contribute to, or does she need to create one? 3) would anyone want to get involved or support this?
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4 months ago
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Everything is fine dot GIF
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4 months ago
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Me, an enterprise B2B IT PR person running a podcast on cloud security for a client: ... You, Spotify account manager: Hey, have you considered some back to school marketing campaigns?
5 months ago
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Dan Raywood
5 months ago
I'm currently running a poll on LinkedIn, does 'pulling the plug', or taking servers and systems offline, stop an attack and an attacker in their steps? I would love your vote here -
www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ra...
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I'm working on an article for ComputerWeekly.com around whether "pulling the plug" and taking systems/servers offline can be a way to stop an attack - and an attacker in their efforts. |...
I'm working on an article for ComputerWeekly.com around whether "pulling the plug" and taking systems/servers offline can be a way to stop an attack - and an attacker in their efforts. It would be gr...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-raywood_im-working-on-an-article-for-computerweeklycom-activity-7362054110856003584-mpKB/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAIDtJsB4y37YntGxOmpka-zW83iFC0Za_M
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And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus. Kuber- net- es at the edge!
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5 months ago
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Always fun when you see a massive organisation in the data and analysis business, that actively wants you to share its data, and then they go through a big website refresh that breaks all their links.
6 months ago
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Cats totally would carry out multiple rug pulls ... or as they term it, "making cyber biscuits"
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6 months ago
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Sean Gallagher
6 months ago
An initial release of Cyberthreaterator 2.0 is now up and running:
falling-anvil.com/cyberthreate...
? Any suggestions for additional threat types will glady be accepted.
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CyberThreaterator
https://falling-anvil.com/cyberthreaterator/
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Ben Mullin
8 months ago
scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:
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As the head of new threat group 'Vicious Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse', I intend to monetise my Ransomeware campaigns where I overwrite critical business documents with excerpts of Swallows and Amazons.
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8 months ago
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John Bull
9 months ago
FREE STORY ALERT The whole of my short story "The Black Line" is now up on Authory for free. If you want an urban fantasy tale about identity, loneliness, trains and someone just doing the right thing, then give it five minutes of your time. If you enjoy it, please quote post and pass it on!
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The Black Line
A short story about trains, loneliness and identity beneath the streets of London.
https://authory.com/JohnBull/The-Black-Line-a21b677984f6e4dad97dc6a086f996e02
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Ed Zitron
9 months ago
I need your help. I need you to vote for Better Offline for the best individual business podcast in the Webbys. go here, register and vote for Better Offline. Every vote gets a free picture of one of my cats with proof. Please win this for me. Open till April 17.
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Vote for the best of the internet
I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.
https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/business
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The Spectrum / Amstrad game for Dan Dare in the 1980s was banging. Recently got one of the old strips out as a collected edition from our local library. It held up pretty well.
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9 months ago
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SINGS: On my way to KubeCon / On my way to KubeCon / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) Developing cloud-native / Containers de-mon-strat-ive / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) My cloud it will be sovereign / Even if it leads to some pain / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) ETC. might see you there
10 months ago
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Noah Abrahams
10 months ago
I haven't seen a lot of people mentioning this, but if you are going to
#Kubecon
and you have a US passport (among many others) you need to get the Electronic Travel Authorization before you go to the UK. It can take up to 3 business days, though mine took 15 minutes.
www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
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Apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA)
What an ETA is, who can get one and how to apply before coming to the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta
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Sharing this as a lovely piece of writing around open tech, taking a stance and being willing to work on things:
ratfactor.com/tech-nope
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I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope
10 months ago
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The direct line from military marching band instrument design, to the sax line in Ace of Base, All That She Wants.
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10 months ago
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Email from publisher on Friday: Please click through on this link for an RFP Me, separately to publisher contact email account: Is this legit? Email account: Yes, completely above board Me: Hmmmm. Not clicking on that Email from publisher on Monday: We were hacked Me: Knew it
10 months ago
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A positive news story in the security industry today - eSentire awards its latest student bursary and announces ten years of running its SOC in Cork.
www.techcentral.ie/sean-henness...
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Sean Hennessy Bursary presentation marks 10 years of eSentire in Ireland - TechCentral.ie
Cyber security provider eSentire has awarded the annual Sean Hennessy Bursary to Munster Technological University (MTU) computer science student, James Spillane. This year, eSentire is also celebratin...
https://www.techcentral.ie/sean-hennessy-bursary-presentation-marks-10-years-of-esentire-in-ireland/
11 months ago
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Piece on how to use both internal information and external data as part of your security approach. Comes after the launch of the Cyber Monitoring Centre earlier this month.
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11 months ago
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How much can we save by divesting ourselves from gold braid?
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11 months ago
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Tired: Client announces customer Wired: Customer announces they are a client. Aston Villa FC announces the club is using eSentire for security:
www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/fe...
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Aston Villa Football Club announces eSentire as the club's Official Cybersecurity Partner
Find more information on our new partnership
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/february/04/aston-villa-football-club-takes-its-cyber-protection-to-the-next-level--announcing-esentire-as-its-official-cybersecurity-partner/
11 months ago
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Session on open source in the public sector within the Global South - Paula Hunter of Mojaloop Foundation on where funding comes from, how open source development model is understood, and the future for folding this back into the wider open source community - digital and data sovereignty
#soocon25
11 months ago
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Emily Middleton, DSIT at
#soocon25
- launch for new digital services earlier in 2025. New suite of AI tools nicknamed Humphrey. Reports on issues around Gov digital approach - too much reliance on old legacy tech and not enough people. Too difficult to collaborate around public data.
11 months ago
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Open source and forking - what does the data tell us?
@geekygirldawn.bsky.social
of CHAOSS provides an overview of the impact that a fork has had on three projects - ElasticSearch / OpenSearch; Terraform / OpenTofu; Redis / Valkey. Full data is at
github.com/chaoss/wg-da...
#soocon25
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wg-data-science/dataset/license-changes/fork-case-study at main · chaoss/wg-data-science
CHAOSS Data Science Working Group: collaborate and improve open source project health using data science-based approaches - chaoss/wg-data-science
https://github.com/chaoss/wg-data-science/tree/main/dataset/license-changes/fork-case-study
11 months ago
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Linux Magazine
11 months ago
We are honored to be a media partner for
@openuk.bsky.social
#SOOCon25
. Be sure to stop by the job board from partner
@opensourcejobhub.com
and sponsored by G-Research. Browse
#SOOCon
jobs now on
#OSJH
opensourcejobhub.com/categories/s...
#events
#career
#community
#OpenSource
#FOSS
#AI
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So much going on today - geopolitics, code support and what people think collide, with much bigger consequences for tech.
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11 months ago
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PR Week: Will DeepSeek shake-up AI in PR? Me: Can I just shout Betteridge's Law at this?
www.prweek.co.uk/article/1904...
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Will DeepSeek shake-up AI in PR? PRWeek podcast, with Omnicom PR Group
What does DeepSeek's dramatic entry to the AI market mean for the comms industry - and should PR professionals embrace the platform? PRWeek's Beyond the Noise podcast takes a look.
https://www.prweek.co.uk/article/1904627/will-deepseek-shake-up-ai-pr-prweek-podcast-omnicom-pr-group?utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20250203&utm_content=PRWeek%20UK%20Breaking%20News%20(208)::&email_hash=
11 months ago
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OpenUK
12 months ago
Digital skills are at the centre of much of our work at OpenUK and CEO
@amandabrock.bsky.social
commented to the BBC on the value of open source in developing these and stemming talent flight
https://buff.ly/4jDtEIw
#opensource
#openuk
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Future Media Day - AI is a core area of focus for spending in 2025. Real ROI is the goal, with returns expected this year according to
@rorybathgate.bsky.social
DeepSeek Klaxon goes off after fifteen minutes.
12 months ago
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At the Future Focus Media Day this morning - top three topics for investment will be AI, cybersecurity, automation. Cloud still in the top ten, but more about hybrid and private cloud. Common link to all priorities? Data.
@itpro.com
12 months ago
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Problem in the cloud? Who you gonna (sys)call?
@sbisson.com
covers the launch of Stratoshark here, and why this level of detail is needed for troubleshooting around the cloud:
www.infoworld.com/article/3808...
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Stratoshark analyzes cloud applications at a syscall level
Capture and analyze the system call and log activity of your cloud-based Linux containers using a new tool based on the familiar Wireshark.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3808150/stratoshark-analyzes-cloud-applications-at-a-syscall-level.html
12 months ago
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Overview of Stratoshark here from Help Net Security:
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/22/s...
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Stratoshark: Wireshark for the cloud - now available! - Help Net Security
Stratoshark is an innovative, free, open-source tool that brings Wireshark’s detailed network visibility to the cloud.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/22/stratoshark-wireshark-cloud/
12 months ago
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The Open Weight Definition has launched courtesy of the Open Source Alliance. Adrian Bridgwater has the overview at Forbes, with
@samj.net
and
@amandabrock.bsky.social
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www.forbes.com/sites/adrian...
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2025/01/22/open-weight-definition-adds-balance-to-open-source-ai-integrity/
12 months ago
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Wireshark told you what was going on in your network. Stratoshark lets you troubleshoot what is going on in your cloud. If you want to investigate cloud activities with system calls, then Stratoshark is your flying carcharadon of choice.
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12 months ago
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Surely this will ingratiate him more effectively. "Hey guys, I'm just like you!"
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12 months ago
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Joe Tidy BBC News
12 months ago
Interesting research from Qualys here where they found a botnet that’s infected vulnerable AVTECH cameras and Huawei routers. 1500 IP addresses found to be in the bot army used to carry out further attacks.
blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit...
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Mass Campaign of Murdoc Botnet Mirai: A New Variant of Corona Mirai | Qualys Security Blog
The Qualys Threat Research Unit has uncovered a large-scale, ongoing operation within the Mirai campaign, dubbed Murdoc Botnet. This variant exploits vulnerabilities targeting AVTECH Cameras and…
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025/01/21/mass-campaign-of-murdoc-botnet-mirai-a-new-variant-of-corona-mirai
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Session tracks on open source, security, finance and telecoms are in place, and the plenaries are looking 🔥🔥🔥 Press passes available if you are interested.
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12 months ago
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Sometimes the brand extensions for publishers are staring you right in the face.
12 months ago
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To be real conspiracy, it has to come from the conspiracy region in the US. Anything else is just sparkling political conjecture.
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12 months ago
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Sharing this because Anna is brilliant. Go on, find this out for yourself.
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about 1 year ago
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